Well I’ve been super busy at work and haven’t posted here in a while. But don’t think for one minute that I’ve been hibernating during this arctic winter. Nope! I’ve been out there on my bike several times a week even when the temps have dipped down into the teens and windchill has been below zero. So it just happens that the year I decide to bike all winter long...

It’s getting colder out there. Time to put away the bicycle? I THINK NOT!!! Don’t pile on the flab this winter. KEEP CYCLING!!! You’ll feel better and if you spend time outside regularly, you won’t get cabin fever during those dreary winter months. With proper layering, there’s no reason why we can’t cycle all winter long. The first couple of...

Want to maintain your LOL (Little Old Lady) Cycle Chic when the temperatures start dropping? Add a close fitting jacket and fashionable scarf. You’ll look delightfully European as you tool down the avenue with your lovely scarf fluttering in the breeze behind you. Just take care, as a lovely reader on Facebook warned me, to tie your scarf tightly around your neck and don’t leave...

I run into lots of folks who don’t like to wear helmets. Let me begin this article by saying that I think helmets are NECESSARY, just as important as a seatbelt in a car. I’ve got too many friends with cracked helmets rather than cracked noggins. I’ve seen the helmets. It’s true. I had my own thank-god-I-had-my-helmet-on experience a few years ago. I...

Let’s face it everybody… spandex doesn’t look good on most people. It most certainly doesn’t look good on ME. And cycling jerseys aren’t very comfortable. They are unfashionable at best and garishly annoying at their worst. I’m just not going to play dress up like Bradley Wiggins (2012 Tour de France winner) and parade down the street on my big fat…...